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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Confirm that you're human to use your account (Kim Holburn)
2. Re: Confirm that you're human to use your account
(Tom Worthington)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:46:24 +1000
From: Kim Holburn <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LINK] Confirm that you're human to use your account
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I get those all the time now for many websites, even the ABC uses google
captcha sometimes.? Many websites use cloudflare turnstile
which is much less annoying or anubis or other gatekeepers.? This is all to
stop AI scraping.? Will it work?? Who knows?
Kim
On 16/6/2025 9:53 am, Tom Worthington wrote:
> Just got a screen from Facebook saying: "Tom Worthington, confirm that you're
> human to use your account".
>
> Like something out of Isaac Asimov's Robot series.
>
> I am tempted to ask Facebook to prove it is human, first. ;-)
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> _______________________________________________
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Kim Holburn
IT Network & Security Consultant
+61 404072753
mailto:[email protected] aim://kimholburn
skype://kholburn - PGP Public Key on request
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:44:26 +1000
From: Tom Worthington <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LINK] Confirm that you're human to use your account
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On 6/16/25 12:46, Kim Holburn wrote:
> I get those all the time now for many websites, even the ABC uses google
> captcha sometimes.? ...
This was a little more complicated. I had to turn on my camera and turn
my head to the side, up and down, as directed on screen. Little worried
Meta is building a 3D model of me. ;-)
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Tom Worthington http://www.tomw.net.au
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